Hello, I'd be grateful for any advice people have for this issue. I'm trying to remove these terribly transitioned skirtings and replace with matched new skirting board like the more simple skirt coming off the stairs in the first picture.
In picture one the stair skirting on the stairs is an inch/25mm thick and projects about 10mm from the line of the plaster. To successfully match the skirt will I have to cut away the plaster back to the brick and make the new skirting out of 1" or 25mm thick hardwood to get a good match and transition? Or is there a cheaper way? A thinner skirt on battens or whatever?
If the plaster needs taken back should I use an angle grinder or a bolster?
Keen to try and make the new skirting myself (including retrofitting a stair skirt to make a badly butchered Victorian flat conversion stair to look a bit less of a mess). It would be could to know what terminology to use to describe the older original skirting to the left of both pictures below in case I get in professionally matched. Anyone know the term for a simple beaded skirting like that in the left of both pics?
In picture one the stair skirting on the stairs is an inch/25mm thick and projects about 10mm from the line of the plaster. To successfully match the skirt will I have to cut away the plaster back to the brick and make the new skirting out of 1" or 25mm thick hardwood to get a good match and transition? Or is there a cheaper way? A thinner skirt on battens or whatever?
If the plaster needs taken back should I use an angle grinder or a bolster?
Keen to try and make the new skirting myself (including retrofitting a stair skirt to make a badly butchered Victorian flat conversion stair to look a bit less of a mess). It would be could to know what terminology to use to describe the older original skirting to the left of both pictures below in case I get in professionally matched. Anyone know the term for a simple beaded skirting like that in the left of both pics?